Joe The War Correspondent?

With His 15 Minutes Of Fame Behind Him, Joe The Plumber Switches Hats

(AP)  Joe the Plumber is taking on a new job.

The Ohio man, who became famous during the U.S. presidential campaign after asking Barack Obama about his tax plan, is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for a conservative Web site called pjtv.com.

Dubbed "Joe the Plumber" by McCain's campaign, Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher was held up as an example of an American worker who would be hurt economically by Obama's election.

Wurzelbacher says he'll spend 10 days covering the fighting and explaining why Israeli forces are mounting attacks against Hamas.

He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants "go over there and let their 'Average Joes' share their story."

Wurzelbacher later joined Republican John McCain on the campaign trail.

At one stop, Wurzelbacher agreed with a McCain supporter who asked if he believed a vote for Obama was a vote for the death of Israel.

[jap1271940]

Maybe when h sees what is really going on, he will change his attitude

[cheetah-man7]

He was an idiot then, and an even bigger idiot now. Leave it to the Republicans to use such a loser as their poster-boy of their party. What a sad joke!

[kidofstl]

I lost ALL respect for this guy when he not only threw John McCain, the one who gave him all this fame, under the bus but STEPPED on as well when he got off! And we have people here supporting him?? Give me a break! We have young people every year go to college for journalism and wind up with either low paying jobs or NO jobs once they get out of school and stuck with student loan bills. Yet all this guy has to do is get famous by a guy he betrays, have some right wing group fund him and go cover a conflict that I bet many of these students would have loved to have had the same opportunity to do. I have always liked John McCain, my favorite Republican, but I just can''t forgive him for leaving us stuck with this man. JTP is lucky that he''s a White male with a skin head because if he were another race his 15 mins of fame would be long gone and the far right would be after him to throw him in jail for not paying his back taxes!

[actornaught]

joe''s fame is entirely based on his own chain of crazy lies. And neocons love that kind of thing.

i wonder what kind of "correspondent" he''ll make... yeah...

[websurf30]

This is the best thing since joetheplumber.com
now we have a joethewarcorrespondent.com
Love the internet.

[moxford0]

Joe the plumber is about the same speed as Palin

[newslink]

Why is this man still in the news? Is''nt his 15 min. over?

[likeitis5050]

Well at least ONE person will report accurately...and of course be counted as just another raving conservative....apparently truth now days = raving conservative.

[kansas1946]

Wurzelbacher says he''ll spend 10 days covering the fighting and explaining why Israeli forces are mounting attacks against Hamas.
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I don''t even know what to say about this. I really don''t care, but it just goes to show you, in this day and age of instant communications, any idiot can become famous. Fortunately, Americans have a really short attention span, so Joe the "plumber" should be forgotten quickly and relegated to late night trivia games.

[barbaram99]

I have noticed that people need to write better head lines and may a gent like Joe will shake up the news people help them write better. I always look for the 5 Ws and 1 H in the opening of an article as that what we were taught in high school newspaper class. We did not have computers then. For ye they are who,what,when,where, why and how. Good luck Joe.

[barbaram99]

crzmeat, well said. When I was in high school I wrote in our paper. I wish him the besk. Hope yer Dad got better. The pros got their start like this gent.

[jsmithcsa]

After seeing the war correspondents from the networks first hand in Iraq, and verifying that everyone of their stories in my area was entirely wrong, I say give the amateur a chance -- the pros have shown they can''t do the job.

[Krazcarl]

I''m pleased he''s making some headway with his 5 minutes why are you guys so jelous you sound like little not very bright children. If your parents never told you when someone gets a break you wish the well. Good luck Joe....see that wasn''t hard.

[armydog2]

oUR cOUNTRY HAS BECOME THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD BECAUSE OF IDIOTS LIKE "JOE" AND THE NEOCONS WHO RUINED THIS cOUNTRY,

[caddillackid]

That fake plumber guy will scoop dog *** off the whitehouse lawn for the Obamas new puppy if he thought it would keep him national stage.

[caddillackid]

Okay..honestly, who cares. This guy is a fraud, much like the camp he supported

[brundage3]

"Be not like sheep..."

While I agree that this "Joe the plumber"stuff is a rotten shame,,,,, The so called "journalism entity he will work for is NOT a NeoCon outfit.

Let''s all stop the jumping onto a word or phrase to use it when we obviously do not know what it means. "Neo" in this case represents "New." Con of course is conservative. But there is nothing new or re-treaded to be ds in new" here. In fact 99% of the time we should drop the Neo thing. These are plain old fashioned super right wing Conservatives. Period. They have been mucking things up for centuries.

[walt1944-2009]

It has been discoverd that the infamous "Joe the Plumber" has hung up his pipe wrenches and plumber''s putty and become, amazingly, a war correspondant for a neocon web site.

Joe will cover the Isreali invasion of Gaza and comment on "life during wartime", as if we didn''t know!

Afterwards, Joe plans on traveling to Alaska to interview Sarah Palin and determine how many Russian jets have flown over the Alaskan governer''s house!!

SIG HEIL, EAT YOUR HEART OUT DAN RATHER!!!, BUSH!!!

[texasbeta]

This is about as big of a joke as possible...other than Sarah Palin as a VP.